HB 6047 Summary

• Amends 1945 PA 344 regarding county and municipal authority to adopt plans for preventing blight and rehabilitating blighted areas.

• Changes public notice requirements for district area designation hearings and citizens' district council establishment hearings to reference the "local government public notice act" beginning January 1, 2015, replacing previous newspaper publication requirements.

• Modifies notice requirements for development plan public hearings to use tier A public notice under the local government public notice act instead of newspaper publication, effective January 1, 2015.

• Updates zoning board of appeals hearing notice procedures to comply with the local government public notice act for hearings on minor deviations from development plans, with tier A public notice requirements beginning January 1, 2015.

• Makes various grammatical and technical corrections to the statute (changing "which" to "that," "shall be" to "is," etc.).